Speeches, Interviews, Writings by Father Hesburgh

CPHS 142/21.03 Item : After Dinner Address given by the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, at the National Academy of Education, Oakland, California, October 26, 1984 1984/1026 8 pages

"I would like to consider the possibility of our academic institutions to shape the future and I would presume to speak particularly of the moral dimensions of higher education and some of the impending ethical questions that attend such a consideration."

Universities and the Nuclear Threat

With the address a copy of Father Hesburgh's review of the book: "The Bishops and Nuclear Weapons: The Catholic Pastoral Letter on War and Peace" by James E. Dougherty. Published in association with the Institute of Policy Analysis, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Archon Books, 1984. 3 pages. Not a speech.

Also enclosed 2 copies of the summary of the first, joint endeavor of scientists and religious leaders worldwide to combat nuclear terror, by Father Hesburgh and Thomas Malone, Foreign Secretary of National Academies of Sciences. Details the meetings, participants, and statements on nuclear threat. Actual statements, released by the participants after deliberations, are missing. Not a speech. 3 pages.

Also enclosed an address given by Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago, at the American Bar Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, August 4, 1984, entitled "Role of the Religious Leader in the Development of Public Policy" 18 pages, together with his remarks at the End of the 50th Anniversary Red Mass, Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago, September 30, 1984, 3 pages.

"I was happy to learn that your 24th Annual Meeting is addressing itself to the issue of quality for the needs of the needs of the nation."

The Social Responsibility of Graduate Education

With the keynote speech a printed program: "Importance of Graduate Education and Research", 23 pages, and various copies of newspaper articles and reports Father Hesburgh used as sources for his speech, 10 pages.

Compiled in separate folder within (CPHS 142/21.04): "CPHS Speeches: Hesburgh." Includes folder with Father Hesburgh's handwritten outline of speech with notes and annotations he used for the speech.

CPHS 142/21.05 Item : [Father Hesburgh's Personal Account Listing His Governmental Services and Appointments under President Eisenhower, President Kennedy, President Johnson, President Nixon, President Ford, President Carter, and President Reagan, emphasizing his special role as the first priest and the only Catholic during these years] 1984? 15 pages

"May I confess at the outset of this personal account that it is difficult, if not impossible, to write of oneself or one's activity without straining objectivity and, at times, credulity."

Not an actual speech, a biographical account prepared for a book and its editors.

CPHS 142/22 Folder : Speeches 1985

CPHS 142/22.01 Item : [Inaugural Lecture on Nuclear Threat by the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, at the Eugene Burke Lecture Series, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, April 3, 1985] #557 1985/0403 53 pages

" ... I can remember back to the year 1943 when I walked into Gene Burke's cluttered room ... ."

Copy of the text of the speech Father Hesburgh gave in San Diego with handwritten changes on pp. 1-37. Transcription of the Question and Answer session after the speech on pp. 38-53.

"If one might judge from the advent of the first millenium in the year of Our Lord 1000, this unusual benchmark of history is by its very nature the occasion of prophecies of gloom and doom."

Summarizes report, published in 1973, "The Purposes and the Performance of Higher Education in the United States: Approaching the Year 2000."

Similar to (CPHS 142/19.04). Father Hesburgh rewrote his earlier speech from 1982: "Preparing for the Millenium" in (CPHS 142/19.04) to deliver this speech. The first part is the same but the second part is different.

Preparing for the Millenium?

Also UDIS Files?

Enclosed with the address a printed program: "Second General Session," 4 pages. Father Hesburgh received the Signature of Excellence Award, after which he delivered his new version of "Preparing for the Millenium" speech.

"It is with very great pleasure that I am with you today to celebrate and commemorate the completion of long and ditinguished years of service on the part of your wonderful President, Dr. Terry Sanford."

"I'm glad to see so many of you out on this cold afternoon to manifest your interest in social justice and particularly in the situation of apartheid, and particularly against the situation of apartheid in South Africa."

Father Hesburgh addressed students from University of Notre Dame. Date is uncertain.

"On behalf of all of us in Holy Cross who knew and loved Father Tom McDonagh, may I offer a word of heartfelt sympathy to his relatives, especially his sister, Georgina, and his brother, Jack, and their families."

"Happy 200th Birthday! ... If I had to choose a text for my words today, I would take it from something your distinguished President wrote a year ago: 'The University today is, of course, an incomparably different institution, in scale and complexity, than it was in all its phases since its founding 200 years ago.'"

In the Heart of the City

With the address a short description of the city of Pittsburgh, followed by details about the faculty, students, presidents, and historical development in general of Pittsburgh University, 5 pages.

"I am grateful to the Aquinas Center of Theology, its Director, Father Bob Perry, and its Associate Director, Anne Russell Mayeaux, for their generous invitation to address a few welcoming words to the participants to this conference, 'For the Trumpet Shall Sound: Protest, Prayer and Prophecy.'"

CPHS 142/25.02 Item : Address given by Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President Emeritus, University of Notre Dame, for the Morgenthau Memorial Lecture, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, New York City, November 3, 1988 #563 1988/1103 25 pages

"I am happy to be with you here tonight under the aegis of Hans J. Morgenthau."

" ... The vitality of Catholic higher education over the past generation is my biggest surprise."

What Makes a Catholic University Great? Father Theodore Hesburgh on the future of American Catholic higher education

Not a speech. Excerpts from an Interview with Father Hesburgh in Forham University Magazine, Fall issue, 1990, Vol. 23, No. 2. Father Hesburgh spoke with Fordham Magazine contributing editor Jerry Buckley.

CPHS 143/01 Folder : Speeches - Undated - A-D

CPHS 143/01.01 Item : An Act of Consecration to Mary 2 pages

"Hail holy Queen, our life, our sweetness, and our hope: On this feast of your Immaculate Conception, which brings to a close this year dedicated to you, we kneel about the altar of your Son, to dedicate anew in all solemnity this University to your patronage."